Hi mom,
As I promised you, I will continue the son.
On the other hand, I forgot a mission, one that is very important when we are given the joy of being parents: our mission is to raise and educate our children. It is not necessarily always an easy mission, but a very important one, at least for me.
Regarding our very dear Earth. How do we protect it? Am I ready to give up certain things? Frankly, I don’t think I’m ready to make all the sacrifices that allow us to improve our daily lives, like having a washing machine. I didn’t know about hand-washing sheets, and I’m quite glad about that. I believe our mission is also to improve our way of living, and it’s clear that our planet suffers from it, but there are other things each of us could do. To start with something very simple: throw papers, chewing gum, etc., in the trash can and not in nature. This year, I spent a week in Corsica. I didn’t know it, and it’s very beautiful, but there’s a major problem—the same one everywhere: when tourists visit a place that isn’t their home, they throw their “crap”—forgive the expression, but that’s what I think—anywhere. Just go to very busy places; your kids can’t play without finding a cigarette butt in the sand, or worse, a banana peel or a diaper. It’s a horror. In the US, it’s clean. Whether in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, there’s nothing on the ground, not even a dog poop. Why? Because there, you face a fine of about $1,000 if you’re caught throwing something on the ground. So this issue combines two things: protecting our planet and respect. But how can you protect our planet when people don’t respect each other?
After that, progress has led us to have nuclear power plants, etc., but little by little, we are also returning to solar energy… However, it is still expensive on the market, and we do not all have the means to change our heating system. As for polluting cars, there is something that makes me smile: the government is going to impose a tax (yet another one), but that will not change much; the car will still pollute just as much. What to do? Well, let our engineers work on a filter or whatever it is for the gas emissions.
After that, culture, well, it’s a vicious circle there too. I don’t know if you’ve seen the show “Our Earth from Space,” it’s horrifying. So let’s stop putting fertilizers everywhere, let’s eat fruits and vegetables in season. How to do that? Well, simply by boycotting products like strawberries, green beans, etc., in winter. In the old days, you couldn’t find these fruits, which, besides, have no taste out of season. Ah, but we have to put fertilizer everywhere, we have to raise chickens in 20 days, because we have to eat, eat this sh…
After that, you said two very important things regarding individuality and respect. How can one respect the planet or others while being an individualist? Well, I haven't found the answer yet. Today, more and more people are individualists. It's every man for himself. You can get attacked, and not many people will come to your aid; I see this clearly in the store, or where I used to be. Once people are at home, they certainly won't open their shutters if they hear someone screaming or a car or apartment siren. So how do you expect these individualists to respect their planet? They simply don't care; later on, it will be their children and grandchildren who will suffer, and that doesn't concern them because they won't be around anymore. This clearly proves that they are individualists; it's about themselves and others, and they don't care.
The hardest part isn't the theory; it's putting it into practice and getting individualists to understand respect. How do you intend to put that into practice?
Here is my little point of view, Mamouch, where several factors come into play, and since I don't have all the answers, if you find a solution that we could put into practice, I am all ears.
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